To Infinity Gauntlet and Beyonder! It’s This Week in Panels! Strong week across the board and I’m helped with it by Space Jawa and Gaijin Dan. Unfortunately, while Sinister Carnage was really strong for the first four issues, the last issue is a big step down that only succeeds in bringing things back to the status quo. The worst part being how they made a big deal out of Cletus Kasady being brain dead because the symbiote is supposedly worse than him on its own… so they fix his brain at the end.

They never did explain how his legs came back.

But who cares about that? Infinity stuck the landing and I can’t wait for the next chapter in Hickman’s Avengers/New Avengers epic. Hopefully we get more Maximus. Hickman’s writing the fuck out of that guy.

In other news, I wrote a review of Christmas Bounty starring WWE wrestler the Miz for Den of Geek US. It’s worse than you’d think!

All-Star Western #25
Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Moritat

Aquaman #25
Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier

Batman ’66 #22
Jeff Parker and Ruben Procopio

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It’s the, “Shit, I’m exhausted. To hell with it, I’m taking a nap first,” edition of This Week in Comics! This week I’m joined by Gaijin Dan, Space Jawa, Was Taters and Dickeye. I did try to get through Harley Quinn #0, but that wasn’t happening. It’s so desperate and blatant in its attempt to rebrand Harley as DC’s Deadpool with breasts that it’s kind of grating. Plus, you know, they want us to enjoy the adventures of a protagonist who just murdered about a hundred kids for no reason a month ago.

Speaking of DC aping Marvel’s style, here’s a really kickass article Chris Sims wrote the other day. He can go to Hell for dedicating an entire paragraph to insulting What If, though.

Stop. Panel time!

Afterlife with Archie #2
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla

Animal Man #25
Jeff Lemire and Rafael Albuquerque

Atomic Robo: The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur #3
Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener

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Pretty light week yet again, though there’s some really strong stuff in there. The Ultimate Spider-Man tie-in to Cataclysm is absolutely hysterical and worth it just for the scene of Spider-Woman explaining to Captain America that she’s a clone of Peter Parker. The annual for Injustice: Gods Among Us hit the spot and it’s a funny and fun one-shot with good art for once. Then there’s Deadpool, which as far as I’m concerned, is the best storyline the character has had since Joe Kelly was writing. I wrote up a review here.

Also at Den of Geek US, I have a look at the history of WWE comics and an essay on why I think DC Comics should release a series for the Others from the pages of Aquaman.

I do really need to get back into writing more stuff, like finishing my half-written next installment of Crossover Celebration. Unfortunately, I’ve been suffering from some writer’s block lately. Maybe it’ll work itself out once I finish off Candy Crush Saga, which is like crack to me. In other news, Level 440 of Candy Crush Saga can go fuck itself. Goddamn tornadoes… What the hell do tornadoes have to do with candy, anyway?

This week I’m helped out by Gaijin Dan and Space Jawa. Imagine us doing the Charlie’s Angels pose and let’s do this!

Batman #25
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

Batman ’66 #20
Jeff Parker and Chris Jones

Batman: Li’l Gotham #8
Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs

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Pretty light week this time around, which is all right with me, since I’ve been at work for too much of it. I’m helped out by Gaijin Dan and Space Jawa. Jawa has a really sweet guest article about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that will be going up tomorrow. Stay tuned for that.

At Den of Geek US, I did a little thing the other day about all the Deadpools who died in Deadpool Kills Deadpool. At least all the Deadpools who have appeared before.

I saw Thor: The Dark World the other day. Definitely in the top 3 of the Avengersverse movies. Kind of crazy that we’re eight movies into this continuity with a weekly TV show, a bunch of upcoming Netflix shows and at least four more movies. Meanwhile, the Superman vs. Batman thing Warner Bros. is working on sounds more pasted together out of desperation by the day.

Also, since the Marvel movies are starting to emphasize the space aspects more and more, I hope that means it would come off a lot less weird when an alien horse-man shows up in the next Thor movie to accidentally steal Mjolnir. As long as he isn’t Scottish. The Beta-Ray Bill episode of the Silver Surfer cartoon was weird.

Batman ’66 #19
Jeff Parker and Chris Jones

Batwing #25
Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Eduardo Pansica

Bleach #555
Tite Kubo

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I don’t know. Just seemed weird that Invincible and Saga would have generational arm-wrestling matches weeks apart.

This week I’m joined by Gaijin Dan and Space Jawa. Jawa and I both realize that the world is now better for having Bebop and Rocksteady fully join the cast of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic.

I know I’ve probably said this before, but I really wish DC would just give Ostrander an ongoing for the Others from Aquaman. It would only last a few issues before being cancelled, but I’d read the hell out of it. Besides, it has diversity and stuff without running into the legacy quagmire that’s been shooting them in the foot.

Plus the Prisoner-of-War is one of my favorite things about the New 52 and I want to see more of him.

Aquaman Annual #1
John Ostrander, Geraldo Borges and Netho Diaz

Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search Part 3
Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

Avengers #22
Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu

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Hello, and welcome to the early morning edition of ThWiP. This week gave us the final issue of Venom, which was not only a disappointing finale, but it actually brought back crap from the Daniel Way run into continuity. That’ll have to wait for its own post within the week. On the other hand, Superior Carnage has been killing it, no pun intended. There’s one more issue left and I wouldn’t mind if the cliffhanger situation is Carnage’s new status quo.

In terms of backup, I have Gaijin Dan, Brobe, Space Jawa and Was Taters.

I had a bunch of stuff go up on Den of Geek US last week. The 13 Most Bizarre Appearances by Horror Icons in Media, which features Freddy Krueger being defeated by Dokken, Pinhead playing poker with Lemmy and Jason being a guest on Arsenio. The 25 Most Insane Rifftrax Shorts, which was especially fun to do research for. Then there’s the 15 Craziest Venom Moments, which is mostly just a Cliffnotes version of We Care a Lot. I was also tasked with gathering images for my friend Marc Buxton’s post on the 10 Greatest Supernatural Stephen King Villains and the entry for the Leatherheads is proof of that.

Now panels.

All-Star Western #24
Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Moritat

Aquaman #24
Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier

Batman ’66 #17
Tom Peyer and Ty Templeton

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Why, hello! Big week of panels, including Two-Face’s lame-ass New 52 origin. Because who cares about Two-Face when Tomasi needs to push his forgettable female gangster character?

I’ve shown up in a couple little features at Den of Geek US over the past couple of days based on my Comic Con experiences. Here’s me as Wreck-It Ralph photobombing people and here’s me as Wreck-It Ralph just hanging out with other cosplayers with commentary by me as Ralph.

Help comes from Matlock, Gaijin Dan, Brobe and Space Jawa. Let’s get to it.

Animal Man #24 (Gavin’s pick)
Jeff Lemire and Rafael Albuquerque

Animal Man #24 (Matlock’s pick)
Jeff Lemire and Rafael Albuquerque

Avengers #21 (Matlock’s pick)
Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu

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Hoo boy. Latest edition of ThWiP yet, not counting power outages. After a lengthy weekend with the Comic Con, it all caught up to me at once and I completely and utterly crashed. On one hand, it sucks to miss my self-created deadline. On the other hand, that was the best sleep ever.

More on NYCC in the next couple days, including THE PICTURE DAVID BROTHERS DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!

Small week for me. Gaijin Dan ends up supplying more panels than me and Space Jawa combined. Despite the lack of quantity, there was a lot of quality. Infinity, Deadpool and Afterlife with Archie were all fantastic, the latter shockingly so. The current arc of Deadpool has the potential to be one of the all-time best stories for the character and the last few pages of #18 are haunting as hell.

Afterlife with Archie #1
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Batman #24
Scott Snyder, James Tynion, Greg Capullo and Rafael Albuquerque

Batman: L’il Gotham #7
Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs

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Hello, my little chicken sandwiches. It’s time for another edition of This Week in Panels. This time, I’m helped out by Gaijin Dan, Matlock and Space Jawa. This week brings the last installment of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, which means that I’ll no longer look at that title and start thinking about that “Jacko on his Backo” skit from mid-90’s Saturday Night Live. Yeah, uh… even if I try to explain it, it would be one of those “had to be there” things.

This week I’ll be heading to New York Comic Con for all four days. David will be there too, hanging out at the Image booth and doing whatever it is he does. Other than running. I know he does that, but he can’t do that there. Me? I have no plans at the moment. I’m going there for the sake of going there. Den of Geek US is going to give me some assignments, but I have no clue what that entails yet. I’m also going to dress up for at least one day and maybe get a new set of Plus Prop Challenge sketches done.

Action Comics #24
Mike Johnson, Tyler Kirkham and Jesus Merino

All-New X-Men #17 (Matlock’s pick)
Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen

All-New X-Men #17 (Gavin’s pick)
Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen

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A couple months ago, I celebrated the 200th week of This Week in Panels with This Character in Panels based on me and many readers posting images that best sum up any given comic character. As long as it wasn’t a cover or splash page or anything like that. There was an awesome turnout that made it go from one update to three. Still, more people kept adding to the pile, so I figured to coincide with ThWiP’s 4-year anniversary, I’d bring back ThCiP one more time.

For review, here’s Part One, Part Two and Part Three.

Alfred Pennyworth
Chosen by: TwoPair
Robin: Year One
Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty and Javier Pulido

Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Chosen by: TwoPair
FF #7
Matt Fraction and Mike Allred

Banshee
Chosen by: Sly Deaths Head
X-Men #28
Roy Thomas and Werner Roth

Batman and Robin
Chosen by: Spaceman Bill
Batman ’66 #2
Jeff Parker and Jonathan Chase

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